Yiddish non-profit brings together literature, listening parties and language circles in London
‘Jargon’ founders sought a Jewish space that focuses on diaspora and counter-cultural Jewish characters
Yiddish World
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How my first trip to Israel led to ‘The First Ever Yiddish Show in Egypt’
A fear of flying and an anti-Zionist upbringing kept singer Riki Rose grounded
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This 12-year-old is enchanting people with her Yiddish singing. Her klezmer musician dad explains why.
Many of Dinah Slepovitch’s performances, accompanied by her father Zisl Slepovitch, can be found on YouTube
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Millennial anxieties are the ‘new normal’ in these Yiddish stories
For young Israeli author Shiri Shapira, the 9/11 attacks turned the future into something dangerous and uncertain
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VIDEO: A review of ‘Marty Supreme’ in Yiddish (English subtitles)
Actor Allen L. Rickman shares his take on the acclaimed film about an ambitious, unscrupulous table tennis player
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Confronting art and love as the Nazis close in
In the play ‘Beneath the Ice of the Vistula,’ a Jewish composer refuses to flee before finishing his master work.
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Rediscovering the ‘Dybbuk’ composer Henokh Kon
Kon, who also composed the score for the restored film ‘Al Khet,’ infused Hasidic melodies with modernist expressionism
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A podcast about disappearance – and Yiddish life
Born in a Yiddish cultural space, “I Think I Saw You” asks intimate questions about visibility, loss and freedom
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Elie Wiesel as an American phenomenon and a family man
The Holocaust writer implored Reagan to cancel a visit to a German military cemetery where SS soldiers were buried.
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Why the Forward launched a Yiddish podcast
Each episode features one or two articles in Yiddish related to a specific theme
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Yiddish theater is revived in Tbilisi, Georgia after 100 years
Born to Christian parents, historian Lasha Shakulashvili was stunned to find Yiddish theater posters in Georgia’s national archives
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